Two Jewish American women were denied entry to an LGBTQ sauna in Barcelona on Friday because they were wearing Star of David necklaces.

A video, recorded by one of the women and posted online, showed staffers at the venue, in accented English, telling the married couple, who reportedly live in Barcelona, that “the question is not Jewish, is Zionist.”

One of the women responded, “They are kind of the same thing.”

They were then removed from the venue, with one of the staffers saying, “We don’t condone genocide either.”

“We don’t either,” one of the Jewish women responded.

Another woman told the couple: “Free Palestine, please leave.”

An American Jewish woman living in Barcelona reached out to me, saying that she and her wife were denied entry last night to a thermal bath, reportedly because they are Jewish. She documented the exchange on video and filed a report with the Mossos d’Esquadra afterwards.… pic.twitter.com/oSyHNAa2M5 Advertisement if(typeof rgb_remove_toi_dfp_banner != "function" || !rgb_remove_toi_dfp_banner("#Article_Incontent1")){ window.tude = window.tude || { cmd: [] }; tude.cmd.push(function() { if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("rgbmedia-app") > -1){ tude.setDeviceType("mobile"); } tude.refreshAdsViaDivMappings([ { divId: 'Article_Incontent1', baseDivId: 'Article_Incontent1', } ]); }); } — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 30, 2026

An American Jewish woman living in Barcelona reached out to me, saying that she and her wife were denied entry last night to a thermal bath, reportedly because they are Jewish.

She documented the exchange on video and filed a report with the Mossos d’Esquadra afterwards.… pic.twitter.com/oSyHNAa2M5

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 30, 2026

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